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C2E2 UF4 CGC graded copies should be revoked?!?!

Final video on this subject.

hmmm. Curious?

 Someone reported CBO for its posts -specifically the C2E2 posts dealing with the knockoff comic.

"We are taking no action"

BECAUSE you cannot silence or censor someone using facts and highlighting these things. Ebay in the UK has also designated the comic in question as a knock off and, I am told, Marvel is "looking into this" and I am NOT going to go into publishing and copyright law as I have no interest in this beyond reporting the matter.

C2E2 Outrage....dropping a biscuit into your mug of coffee is more outrageous

 This acetate cover "controversy" is addictive.

Watching people who have stood back and simply acted like sheep and listened to all the scammers and.. "influencers" and go out and spend hundreds if not thousands on comic speculation where the comics end up not being worth half of what they paid.

WHO is so dumb that they want to pay $85 (the "original" cost) for a facsimile that has been devalued by having two extra staples added and an acetate cover? Not just that you cannot sell on Ebay as they have classed this as a bootleg and it is. Marvel did not give permission it seems.

I have a polished turd CGC graded 10.0 with "Spiderman" etched into it -yours for $10,000 sucker!

It is now over 20 years since I exposed all of this on Comic Bits Online and even some of the dodgy CGC stories I published posts up until 2019 on what was going on in comics and huge views...but it was in one eye and out the other. Here is one. Someone I knew who worked at a distributor took a copy of a brand new that week comic from the centre of the box. He looked it over. No creases. Perfect. He sent it to CGC to be graded and it came back 2.0 -a brand new and unblemished comic was a 2.0?? Apparently the "grader" decided that the staples did not match so the grade was lowered. Let me explain something; if you use a stapler for paperwork when it starts running low you put in new staples of the same brand but you cannot tell the difference. This also applies to printers (imagine how many staples they go through) so at some point during the collation of the print run new staples were added (though I saw the close up and found it hard to tell any difference in my friend's book).

Another for fun. A You Tuber had his 1969 comic graded as 9.0 by CGC. He was happy until he saw that somehow the casing had been cracked either before shipping or during and he showed the the undamaged box on his channel. So he contacted CGC who told him to send it back and they would re-slab it. They did and although it took three months to get the book back he was happy...until he saw that his book was now 5.0! Argue and "We can look at it and regrade (at a price)"

That CGC officially graded an illegal bootleg will or should have ramifications.

We see absolutely ridiculous prices being asked on Ebay.uk for US comics because we are isolated now. I buy a $10 comic from the U.S. (like I used to) and the postage cost is going to be around $35-40. Dealers in the U.S. will not (I have asked) mark envelopes/packages as "Second hand comic" which means that UK customs will hit you with another $12-20 as import duty. So for Avengers vol. 1 #84 I would be paying almost $70+

For this reason Ebay sellers try to play buyers off. And we see this with U.S. sellers on Ebay UK who ask $150 for a comic AND want $70-95 for postage on top.

Everyone from comic publishers, editors, sellers and even conventions have been on the scam band wagon. Comic buyers quite literally encourage them and say "Thank you for scamming me, sir".

For absolutely no reason old British comics of the 1940s-1950s have trebled and quadrupled in price. Why? There is very limited interest and I note 1940s annuals I paid £5.00 a few months ago are now listed as £35/£60/£75 -and they are not selling and there is the usual Ebay seller skullduggery going on meaning that unless an item hits the big money they want suddenly your winning bid...lost. Ebay do not care so long as they get their cut. I have seen black and white UK reprints of American comics hit prices such as £25 and £30 when the original full colour comic will cost £5-6!

I offer the fair price (I know they want to make money) but when they come back with a "counter offer" that is treble that I walk away. I am not helping the scammers get rich.

This has all sucked the life out of comic collecting as fun. Sell comics you don't want because you need rent or money to buy certain series you follow but scam.....

eBay claims UF4 C2E2 is Counterfeit.

He should not complain as by definition the comic is a fake. I think he's angry that he got scammed and CGC...their actions need to be called into question.

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The Green Skies -with some interior art pages

 Being called the biggest British "super hero graphic novel saga ever" -and I can't argue with that. Can you name a graphic novel series from the UK featuring super heroes, alien invasions, a war between the Ancient Old Ones and later pantheons, zombies and...well, a lot more?

These books are printed and posted in the country/region you order from so no overseas postage!

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Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes

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It begins slowly.  It always does. It's a deception that everything in the world is as it should be and that never changes.

Earth’s heroes and crime-fighters are going about their daily tasks –fighting a giant robot controlled by a mad scientist’s brain, attackers both human and mystical -even alien high priests of some mysterious cult and their zombie followers and, of course, a ghost and a young genius lost in time. 

Pretty mundane. 

But psychics around the world have been sensing something.  A "something" that sends feelings of sheer terror through their psyches.

There is a huge alien Mother-ship near the Moon. Undetected by deep-space radar and other instruments, only a few on Earth have sensed it and they cannot penetrate the hull but only feel psychic screams and....worse.

And then it begins: strange orange spheres isolate and chase some of Earth’s heroes who then vanish into thin air –are they dead?  An attack by an old foe or foes -?

Black, impenetrable domes cover cities world-wide. 

Then it becomes clear to those within the domes what is going on: Alien invasion of Earth! 

A war between the Dark Old Gods and the pantheons that followed! 

Warriors from Earth’s past having to battle each day and whether they die or not they are back the next day! 

No one suspects the driving force behind the events.  One single evil guiding events.  Events that could cause destruction and chaos throughout the multiverse.

Assaulted on all fronts can Earth’s defenders succeed or will they fail...is this truly the end? 

The Cross Earths Caper

 

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Following the events on Neo Olympus and the Boarman invasion of Earth, many heroes and crime-fighters have withdrawn from activity. Some are trying to recover from injuries while others are fighting the mental scars left by the events.

But things have to go on.  As heroes from other parallels who helped during the recent events return home, members of the Special Globe Guard are shocked at the sudden appearance of Zom of the Zodiac. Never a sign of good things a-coming!

Very soon, a group of heroes mount a rescue mission and find that a quick rescue mission can turn sour equally quickly. As they overcome one challenge the the heroes become lost between parallel Earths and face new threats.

 Sometimes one Earth just is not enough. The complete story published in issues 7-10 of Black Tower Adventure now in...one handy dandy book!

 Green Skies Vol. 3 Part I out NOW!

 

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It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods. 

Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted. 

The Many Eyed One is finally coming. 

The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help. 

The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders

The Green Skies Vol. 3 Part II 

 

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Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One. 

The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him. 

Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters. 

In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy. 

On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet. 

With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim

The Green Skies Vol. 3 Part III 

 

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208pp

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The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System. 

Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win. 

Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?